DN SOOPers vs Kiwoom DRX — a LCK match played on 2026-01-21, and the win went to Kiwoom DRX. With 20 combined kills, fights were rare, and the game lasted 31:20. When kills are scarce, the gold and objective gaps are what explain the result. The total gold gap grew to 14,884, with Kiwoom DRX ahead. At that size the item tiers differ, so the late-game combat figures should be read as numbers produced after the gap opened. The clearest objective gap came from Towers: 9 for Kiwoom DRX against 1 for the other side.

A KDA of 9/0/5 is what Ucal recorded on Orianna, the strongest line among the winners. 3,880 is the end-of-game gold gap Jiwoo built over deokdam in the Bot matchup, the largest positional gap in this game. Jayce was the first champion DN SOOPers removed, while the opening ban from Kiwoom DRX was Malphite. Game 1 of the series. The series ran to 3 games in total, and the patch applied was 16.1.